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About the author Mike Sandrock

Mike Sandrock is an award-winning sport journalist with a quarter-century of running expertise. He currently covers running for the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, Colorado, and maintains freelance status with numerous publications, including Running Times, Runner’s World, Marathon & Beyond, and Trail Runner. He is a member of the Colorado Press Association, where he has won numerous accolades for Best Sports Story of the Year and is a Colorado Running Hall of Fame inductee.
As a runner, Mike has trained with many elite athletes and Olympic champions, with personal bests of 2:24:00 in the marathon and 30:23 in the 10K. Mike currently resides in Boulder, where he runs, writes, and manages the One World Running project that he founded. This program donates new and used equipment to underprivileged athletes around the world.

Aisha Praught-Leer and training partner Emma Coburn, both Olympian steeplechasers, are in the midst of 80-mile training weeks as they prepare for the Aug. 31 Diamond League Championships in Brussels, where both will run the steeplechase. Wednesday evening, Leer took a break to win the

Olympian turned coach Cathy Butler, was one of the many local area coaches supporting their runners on the track and being honored by the Boulder Road Runners at Olympic Day celebration on June 21, 2018.

When Callum Hawkins, an elite 10,000 meter runner from Scotland, came to Boulder on Tuesday, he found lodging with former marathon world record holder Steve Jones. Thursday, Hawkins did his household proud by outkicking Stephen Pifer to win the West End 4K. Hawkins clocked 11 minutes 42 seconds for the roughly 2.5 miles, four seconds up on Pifer, a former mile star at the University of Colorado. Ryan Poland was third in 11:57. “It was tough,” said Hawkins, a 28:49 10K runner, “with the uphill, altitude, heat, and Pifer pushing the pace.”

After going out too fast in last year’s Dick’s Sporting Goods BolderBOULDER 10K and leading her unsuspecting teammates into early oxygen debt and a third-place team finish, Renee Metivier-Baillie vowed to run smarter this year. That she and her teammates, Amy Hastings and Magdalena Lewy Boulet, did on this cloudy Memorial Day, placing second in the 2011 International Team Challenge.

If Nelson, 26, looks comfortable in the fieldhouse, it is likely because he spent five years as an undergraduate at CU. Then, after making the 2008 Olympic team a month after his senior year, he signed a professional contract and moved to Eugene, Ore., in the fall of 2008 to compete for the Oregon Track Club. Now, Nelson has returned home, to raise his family in Longmont; help CU get the best prep runners here as the track team’s recruiting coordinator; and to see how much faster he can run in the 3,000 meter steeplechase.

A very pregnant Sara Vaughn nearly gave birth to her second child when she jumped up in excitement, cheering along with the other 50,000 fans packing the University of Colorado football stadium when she saw husband Brent Vaughn sprint in for fourth place at the 32nd Dick’s Sporting Goods BolderBOULDER 10K at Monday’s Memorial Day tradition.

Originally posted January of 2010 in the Daily Camera New Year’s Day was an auspicious one, with a blue moon heralding the start of a new decade. With that new beginning in mind, I want to take a look back at highlights of the past

When Matt McCue was a freshman walk-on to the University of Colorado cross country team in the summer of 2001, he showed up for his first run at the Potts Field track. The were only three runners at Potts that day; future NCAA champions and Olympians Jorge Torres and Dathan Ritzenhein, as well as Edwardo Torres. McCue got hammered that July morning, but he hung tough with the “skinny Trinity” the entire 12-mile run.

Sara Slattery has had several big races in her career, including the NCAA 3000 meter indoor and 10,000 meter outdoor titles at the University of Colorado, along with being part of the Buffaloes 2000 national championship team. Nothing, however, compares to her win Monday at

Back when she was 15 and wanting to go out for the Durango High School track team, Elva Dryer promised her father that he if bought her a pair of running shoes, she would one day run in the Olympic Games. Buying shoes for one

In a roundabout way, Bill Rodgers is partly responsible for the creation of the Bolder Boulder, the annual Memorial Day 10K race run through the streets of Boulder. That is because it was the highly visible rivalry between Rodgers and Boulder’s Frank Shorter that helped